The stakes on UK fixed-odds betting machines are almost the highest in the developed world.
Here punters in bookies can gamble £100 a spin up to five times a minute to try to land a £500 jackpot.
It is only the high-rollers playground of Las Vegas where the machine bets can be higher.
There gamblers have risked £3,800 a spin hoping to win hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The startling FOBT facts are revealed in a report from leading think-tank ResPublica, which also found one in three of UKs problem gamblers earns less than £10,400 a year.
This means a months income could be lost in less than two minutes on FOBT machines, dubbed the crack cocaine of gambling. ResPublica is echo…
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